The graduate student accused of breaching security at Newark Airport and forcing a six-hour shutdown of Terminal C said on Thursday he did not want to discuss his case before he appears in court on a defiant trespass charge.

“I don’t want to talk about it now,” Haisong Jiang, 28, said when reached at home. “I don’t want to talk before my court [appearance],” he said politely.

But in a handwritten statement to police just days after the Jan. 3 incident, Jiang said he just wanted to spend more time with his girlfriend when he stepped across a barrier, but that he did not cause any harm once on the other side.

“I want to spent more time with my girlfriend before her flight so I went (through) the gate without security check,” Jiang, 28, said in the statement obtained by The Record. “I didn’t do anything inside the gate and didn’t leave anything inside.”

Jiang is scheduled to appear in Newark Municipal Court on Tuesday on a “defiant trespass” charged related to the alleged breach. Jiang was arrested after a video of the breach was released.

According to police reports, Jiang entered the secure area “knowing that he was not licensed or privileged to do so, entering a secure area by going under rope stanchions and disregarding a fixed sign that said no entry and a sign affixed to a stand which said do not enter-exit only.”

Jiang, a doctoral student in a joint molecular biosciences program at Rutgers University is from China and has been in the U.S. since 2004. His attorney could not be reached for comment. An official with the Chinese consulate in New York said they have assisted Jiang and are following his case.

A Transportation Security Administration guard who was assigned to guard the post and keep people from entering the area was placed on administrative leave, following the incident. A review of the incident is expected to end soon, said Ann Davis, a spokeswoman for TSA.

In his statement, Jiang said he left after meeting his girlfriend.

“I only walked through to the gate with my girlfriend and waited the line[sic] of the gate entrance,” he wrote. “After my girlfriend went into the plane I left immediately and didn’t do anything in the airport. Finally I drove my car and went back home.”

Davis noted that TSA made several changes following the breach, including adding a second officer to monitor the area Jiang allegedly violated.

TSA also volunteered to check the security cameras regularly. TSA cameras were not recording at the time of the breach, officials said. Investigators relied on cameras operated by Continental Airlines for footage of the incident.